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Hi, I'm Valen and welcome to engvid.com. This is a lesson on common expressions in the workplace, so it means that you'll hear use in a business setting.
大家好，我是Valen。欢迎来到engvid.com。在这堂课上你将学到职场中的一些常用短语以及它们的用法。
So we're gonna do seven idioms today and the first one is "put on the map".
今天，我们将学习7种习惯用语。第一个是“put on the map”。
And what "put on the map" means is to make well-known, so we can use this in a sentence like this:
意思是“使...闻名”。常使用的句型如下：
This new product will put us on the map. And what that means is this new product will make us well known. Put us on the map.
这个新产品将使我们声名大噪。意思是，这个新产品将使我们出名。使...闻名。
Our second expression is "savvy". Savvy means smart and knowledgeable about something. So we can use it like this:
第二个表达是“懂行”，指对某事非常了解，知识渊博。常用如下：
We hired Tom because he is computer savvy. And what this means is
我们雇佣了Tom，因为他精通电脑。这是指
Tom is smart and knowledgeable about computers, he knows a lot about computers, he is computer savvy. So our second expression is savvy.
Tom对电脑十分在行，对电脑知识很了解、精通。
The next common English expression you might hear in the workplace is "play hardball".
下一个短语是“采取强硬态度”。
Play hardball and what this means is in a tough situation when you're dealing with the tough situation or a person,
这个短语是指当你面对难搞的事或人时，
you're dealing with them in a tough way you're going to play hardball.
你采取了强硬的态度。
Here's an example --
例句——
If our competitors won't comply, we are going to have to play hardball.
如果我们的竞争对手不答应，我们将采取强硬态度。
So that means we're going to have to deal with our competitors in a tough way.
因此，这表示，我们将以强硬的方式对待我们的竞争对手。
Our next expression is "power lunch". so what power lunch is, it's when business people do business over lunch.
下一个短语是“商业午餐”,指商业人士在吃午餐过程中谈买卖。
So for example,
例如，
Today our boss and our finance department went out for a power lunch.
今天，我们的老板和财务部外出参加商业午餐了。
So what this means is that the boss and the people that work in the finance department went out together to discuss business over lunch. A power lunch.
这句话是指财务部同事和老板在午餐时谈生意。
Our next expression is "the bottom line".
下一个短语是“结果”。
So what the bottom line means is it means the final result or in the end and here's an example of how we would use the expression the bottom line.
指最终的结果，常用句型如下:
We worked hard on our sales pitch but the bottom line is that we didn't make the sale.
我们非常努力地推销商品，但是最终也没做成买卖。
So what this means is um... the end result is that we didn't make the sale, so it sort of insinuates that
这句话是指，结果我们没有做成买卖，暗示着
it doesn't matter that we worked hard in the sales pitch, doesn't matter how hard we work because the bottom line,
虽然我们很努力的在推销我们的产品，但这并不重要，
the end result is that we didn't make the sale, regardless of how hard we worked. The bottom line.
因为结果就是我们没有做成，不管我们有多努力。
All right, the next expression is to "tweak something". So tweak, here's how we use it:
下一个短语是“调整”。常用如下：
Okay, I just have to tweak my report a little bit and then it will be finished. So what tweek means is make slight adjustments to.
我要对报告稍作调整才能完成。Tweek是指做稍微的调整。
So I just have to make some slight adjustments to my report and then it will be finished. So tweak, to make slight adjustments.
我要稍微调整报告之后，才能完成报告。Tweek，做稍微的调整。
Okay our next expression is "flying by the seat of your pants".
下一个短语是“凭感觉做某事”。
So this expression has a negative connotation, it means that you don't prepare or plan, flying by the seat of your pants,
这个短语带有负面含义，表示并未做事前准备或计划，
means you're just doing something off the cuff, which means that you're just doing something without any preparation or planning.
意味着你是即兴做某事，没有任何准备或计划。
Here's how we would use this in a sentence:
句型如下：
Tom's presentations are bad. He is always flying by the seat of his pants.
Tom的演讲很糟糕。他总是凭感觉做事。
So he doesn't prepare for his presentations, he's just flying by the seat of his pants.
指Tom没有为他的演讲做准备，只是凭感觉做事。
Okay our last expression is "number crunching".
最后一个短语是“处理数字”。
So this is what the finance department does. They mumber crunch, they analyze numbers.
这是由财务部负责的事。他们处理数字、分析数字。
And we can use this in a sentence like this:
句型如下：
I'm going to go back to my office and crunch some numbers.
我要回办公室处理一下数字。
So what this means is I'm going to go back to my office and analyze the financial situation or analyze the budget or the numbers. So number crunching.
是指我要回办公室分析一下财务状况或研究一下预算或数字。
Okay, so in this lesson, we learned seven common English expressions that you would use in the workplace:
今天，我们学习了7种常用职场英语短语：
put on the map, savvy, play hardball, power lunch, the bottom line, to tweak something, fly by the seat of your pants and number crunching.
使...闻名、采取强硬态度、商业午餐、最终结果、稍作调整、凭感觉做事以及处理数字。
You can test your knowledge by taking the quiz on www.engvid.com.
你可以登录www.engvid.com做一下小测试
